Best first aid kit for a biker?

[FSCGunslinger]

And I don't mean "whiskey and dirt", either. haha.

I'm curious about what type of first aid kit I should put together to keep on my bike? I'm not as familiar with the types of injuries one might receive if caught in a motorcycle accident. Suggestions?

[Stralya]

Re: Best first aid kit for a biker?

Originally posted by FSCGunslinger
I'm not as familiar with the types of injuries one might receive if caught in a motorcycle accident.

Well, I rode into a driveway where a pothole grabbed my front wheel at about 1 mph and the bike tipped over. Here is the result.





The best thing you can carry on your bike is a bracelet listing any allergies and your blood type.

Dan.

[TADracer]

Band-aids, anticeptic cream and a cell phone.

[mro]

37. The likelihood of injury is extremely high in these motorcycle accidents-98% of the multiple vehicle collisions and 96% of the single vehicle accidents resulted in some kind of injury to the motorcycle rider; 45% resulted in more than a minor injury.

38. Half of the injuries to the somatic regions were to the ankle-foot, lower leg, knee, and thigh-upper leg.

39. Crash bars are not an effective injury countermeasure; the reduction of injury to the ankle-foot is balanced by increase of injury to the thigh-upper leg, knee, and lower leg.

40. The use of heavy boots, jacket, gloves, etc., is effective in preventing or reducing abrasions and lacerations, which are frequent but rarely severe injuries.

41. Groin injuries were sustained by the motorcyclist in at least 13% of the accidents, which typified by multiple vehicle collision in frontal impact at higher than average speed.

old report can read here> http://www.clarity.net/~adam/hurt-report.html


mro
BTW, years ago I use to carry a medical assistant on the back of my bike. Never needed any med treatments at the time so I married her.

[webbcraft2150]

Most bike wrecks will involve asphalt rash and broken bones. Most often the fractures will be nasty compound fractures. These can have arterial bleeding when the bone takes out a major artery or blood vessel. Asphalt rash is kinda like a burn, and hurts like one to. Gauze pads and rolls should be the primary item. Antibiotic ointment and a assortment of bandaids, ace bandage, sissors or sharp knife if you have the room. A breathing guard, if you know how to use it, and latex gloves should round things out along with a "space" blanket. Use of these items needs to be limited to your expertise and training and the time it may take for EMS people to arrive. Could get into a major disertation on first responder care but I will leave that for another day. Remember, avoid removing a helmet till you are absolutley sure there is no neck or head trauma or you have to to start rescue breathing. The best thing you can do is keep the guy/gal as comfortable as you can till the guys in the shiney red truck with all the flashing lights show up.

[Crazcnuk]

You can get almost any injury imaginable on a bike. Blunt trauma, cuts, breaks, abrasions, punctures, burns, combos of them all, etc.

Any decent emergency first aid kit will work, and from there you just have to improvise.

[chip]

first aid

Through my work we attend many first aid classes. One of the better ones was by R. H. Sanders & Associates (cprwiz.com).
Thay handed out a basic first aid pamphlet on how to tell the differance of different cuts, burns. Also on basic first aid supplies. If you want I could try to scan and post it.

THIS IS NOT A BOOKLET ON CURING PEOPLE. IT IS INFO ON TRYING TO KEEP THE PERSON FROM GETTING WORSE UNTIL HELP ARIVES.

[79XS11F]

If you want to keep it compact and simple just buy a good and well stocked kit for camping or hiking and add to it. For the most part any mishap that goes beyond one of those kits means a trip to the emergency room so make sure you have what you need to STABILIZE the injured until help arrives. That means protecting the injured from shock which can happen very quickly if blood is being lost and or the person gets cold. So if the kit does not include a thermal emergency blanket add one along with added supplies to control bleeding.

Rob